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Ribs on the Ridge Brews & BBQ

2024-02-16 – 2024-02-17 · Haines City, FL · 📍 555 Ledwith Ave. · State championship

Reps: CAROLYN WELLS, JEANNE TITUS · Prize money: $9,700.00

Grand Champion: Heavy Smoke BBQ (707.9772) · 29 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Poppa Pig

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707.9772 · Master Series — Overall
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704.5372 · Master Series — Overall
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703.4060 · Master Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Master Series — Chicken 180.00 🔥
  • Master Series — Pork Ribs 178.86
  • Master Series — Pork 178.86
  • Master Series — Brisket 180.00 🔥
  • Backyard Series — Chicken 174.27
  • Backyard Series — Pork Ribs 178.86
  • Ancillary — Pork 172.59
  • Ancillary — Brisket 172.56
106.00 180.00

Entries

29
8 judged meats

Top score

707.9772

Winning margin

3.4400
GC over RC

Field average

679.09
567.68707.98
median 684.45 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

3 🔥
Poppa Pig (Brisket), With a Perfect 180 (Chicken), FRED VEGAS SMOKERS (Chicken)

Tightest race

Pork
2.2972 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

690.8000
567.68707.98
10th place overall

Field spread

140.2972
winner to last place

Prize money

$9,700.00
on the line

Most consistent

avg finish 2.50 across 4 meats

Double threats

10
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork Ribs
won by 9.7256 pts — Curly Bird BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 7%
beats 93% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Form held

Weak
ρ = -0.23 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1589
avg power rating going in · stronger than 71% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1862 pre-contest

Storylines (3 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

Won without a category win

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

Heavy Smoke BBQ won the Grand Championship without winning a single meat — 4 calls from 4 boards, best of them 2nd. Consistency beat fireworks.

  • Chicken 5th
  • Pork Ribs 2nd
  • Pork 5th
  • Brisket 7th

A day of perfect scores

3 perfect 180s

3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • Poppa Pig · Brisket
  • With a Perfect 180 · Chicken
  • FRED VEGAS SMOKERS · Chicken

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 15 calls decided inside half a point

Master Series — Chicken places 1–2: With a Perfect 180 and FRED VEGAS SMOKERS tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Chicken places 6–7: SMOKIN' AIN'T EZ and ACCUTECH BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Pork Ribs places 1–2: Ham Squad and Heavy Smoke BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Master Series — Chicken 1–2 · tie
  • Master Series — Chicken 6–7 · tie
  • Master Series — Pork Ribs 1–2 · tie
  • Master Series — Pork Ribs 8–9 · tie

Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)

Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)

Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)

Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Master Series — Chicken180.0000177.1544174.8456
Master Series — Pork Ribs178.8572174.8572173.1200
Master Series — Pork178.8572176.5600175.4056
Master Series — Brisket180.0000176.0000173.1200
Backyard Series — Chicken174.2744163.9428
Backyard Series — Pork Ribs178.8572166.8344156.5716
Ancillary — Pork172.5944168.0000
Ancillary — Brisket172.5600161.0972

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

29 entries · top 707.9772 · median 684.4456

#TeamScore
1 Heavy Smoke BBQ 707.9772
2 Poppa Pig 704.5372
3 SmokinGhost BBQ 703.4060
4 Ham Squad 696.5372
5 With a Perfect 180 694.7772
6 Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q 693.6572
7 Glamping Grillers 693.0856
8 PIGGIN' WHISKEY 691.9200
9 Cooters N Smoke 691.3716
10 TILLMAN'S BBQ 690.8000
11 HOT WACHULA'S 690.7656
12 Ramblin Fork BBQ Co 689.6344
13 ACCUTECH BBQ 689.6112
14 SMOKE N' ASH BBQ 686.7888
15 K & E's Little Smokers 684.4456
16 Kings BBQ Team 683.9320
17 Slapulator BBQ 682.7312
18 Going Yard BBQ 680.4688
19 FRED VEGAS SMOKERS 678.1828
20 KEEPIN IT SMOKIN BBQ 677.6116
21 SMOKIN' AIN'T EZ 676.4456
22 OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE 674.1256
23 Bourbon & Blues BBQ 673.5772
24 2 Guys BBQ 667.3372
25 Mad Dog BBQ 664.9940
26 BIG DADDY Q - FL 661.0172
27 2nd Hand Smoke 651.2920
28 Smokin-N-Pokin 644.9372
29 Pig In or Pig Out 567.6800

Chicken

29 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.9656 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 With a Perfect 180 180.0000 🔥
2 FRED VEGAS SMOKERS 180.0000 🔥
3 SmokinGhost BBQ 178.8572
4 Ham Squad 177.7144
5 Heavy Smoke BBQ 177.1544
6 SMOKIN' AIN'T EZ 176.5600
7 ACCUTECH BBQ 176.5600
8 Going Yard BBQ 175.4172
9 Mad Dog BBQ 175.4056
10 Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q 174.8456
11 Poppa Pig 174.2628
12 Ramblin Fork BBQ Co 173.1316
13 Bourbon & Blues BBQ 173.1200
14 K & E's Little Smokers 173.1200
15 Slapulator BBQ 171.9656
16 TILLMAN'S BBQ 171.4056
17 PIGGIN' WHISKEY 170.8228
18 2 Guys BBQ 169.1200
19 SMOKE N' ASH BBQ 168.5372
20 Glamping Grillers 167.9772
21 KEEPIN IT SMOKIN BBQ 167.3828
22 OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE 167.3828
23 Kings BBQ Team 166.2516
24 Cooters N Smoke 166.2284
25 HOT WACHULA'S 163.9428
26 2nd Hand Smoke 162.8000
27 BIG DADDY Q - FL 161.1428
28 Pig In or Pig Out 158.8800
29 Smokin-N-Pokin 157.6572

Pork Ribs

29 entries · top 178.8572 · median 171.9656

#TeamScore
1 Ham Squad 178.8572
2 Heavy Smoke BBQ 178.8572
3 Slapulator BBQ 176.5716
4 Poppa Pig 176.5600
5 SMOKIN' AIN'T EZ 174.8572
6 Kings BBQ Team 174.2860
7 Glamping Grillers 173.7028
8 Cooters N Smoke 173.1316
9 Going Yard BBQ 173.1316
10 PIGGIN' WHISKEY 173.1200
11 KEEPIN IT SMOKIN BBQ 173.1200
12 SmokinGhost BBQ 172.5716
13 HOT WACHULA'S 171.9772
14 With a Perfect 180 171.9772
15 ACCUTECH BBQ 171.9656
16 2 Guys BBQ 171.4172
17 Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q 171.4172
18 Bourbon & Blues BBQ 170.8228
19 OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE 169.6800
20 FRED VEGAS SMOKERS 169.6800
21 Ramblin Fork BBQ Co 169.1200
22 SMOKE N' ASH BBQ 169.1200
23 Smokin-N-Pokin 168.5372
24 Mad Dog BBQ 166.8344
25 TILLMAN'S BBQ 165.6800
26 K & E's Little Smokers 165.0856
27 BIG DADDY Q - FL 160.5144
28 2nd Hand Smoke 155.9888
29 Pig In or Pig Out 144.5144

Pork

29 entries · top 178.8572 · median 173.1316

#TeamScore
1 TILLMAN'S BBQ 178.8572
2 Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q 177.7144
3 HOT WACHULA'S 177.7028
4 SmokinGhost BBQ 176.5600
5 Heavy Smoke BBQ 176.5600
6 SMOKE N' ASH BBQ 176.0116
7 Ham Squad 175.4400
8 Ramblin Fork BBQ Co 175.4172
9 K & E's Little Smokers 175.4172
10 Glamping Grillers 175.4056
11 With a Perfect 180 175.4056
12 KEEPIN IT SMOKIN BBQ 174.2744
13 Poppa Pig 173.7144
14 Cooters N Smoke 173.7144
15 PIGGIN' WHISKEY 173.1316
16 2nd Hand Smoke 171.9772
17 Slapulator BBQ 171.9656
18 Bourbon & Blues BBQ 169.6800
19 ACCUTECH BBQ 169.1200
20 BIG DADDY Q - FL 167.3944
21 OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE 167.3828
22 Mad Dog BBQ 166.2628
23 Kings BBQ Team 165.6800
24 Smokin-N-Pokin 163.9428
25 Going Yard BBQ 161.0856
26 2 Guys BBQ 160.5256
27 SMOKIN' AIN'T EZ 159.3484
28 Pig In or Pig Out 158.2856
29 FRED VEGAS SMOKERS 156.5372

Brisket

29 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.8344 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Poppa Pig 180.0000 🔥
2 Cooters N Smoke 178.2972
3 Kings BBQ Team 177.7144
4 HOT WACHULA'S 177.1428
5 Glamping Grillers 176.0000
6 SmokinGhost BBQ 175.4172
7 Heavy Smoke BBQ 175.4056
8 TILLMAN'S BBQ 174.8572
9 PIGGIN' WHISKEY 174.8456
10 SMOKE N' ASH BBQ 173.1200
11 ACCUTECH BBQ 171.9656
12 BIG DADDY Q - FL 171.9656
13 FRED VEGAS SMOKERS 171.9656
14 Ramblin Fork BBQ Co 171.9656
15 Going Yard BBQ 170.8344
16 K & E's Little Smokers 170.8228
17 Bearded Monkeys Twisted Q 169.6800
18 OLD VIRGINIA SMOKE 169.6800
19 With a Perfect 180 167.3944
20 2 Guys BBQ 166.2744
21 SMOKIN' AIN'T EZ 165.6800
22 Ham Squad 164.5256
23 KEEPIN IT SMOKIN BBQ 162.8344
24 Slapulator BBQ 162.2284
25 2nd Hand Smoke 160.5260
26 Bourbon & Blues BBQ 159.9544
27 Mad Dog BBQ 156.4912
28 Smokin-N-Pokin 154.8000
29 Pig In or Pig Out 106.0000

Backyard Series

Overall

10 entries · top 347.9772 · median 326.4858

#TeamScore
1 Curly Bird BBQ 347.9772
2 Belly Bustin Bistro 342.8232
3 Powered by Smoke 339.9772
4 Yeti Mafia BBQ 338.8000
5 Cool Guys BBQ 327.3372
6 Evans Family Ranch 325.6344
7 Lake Region High Thunder Thighs 323.9200
8 Amped Up 314.1600
9 MaGoo's Eatery 311.3832
10 HOLE 15 BBQ 165.1544

Chicken

9 entries · top 174.2744 · median 163.9428

#TeamScore
1 Belly Bustin Bistro 174.2744
2 Yeti Mafia BBQ 173.7144
3 Powered by Smoke 170.8456
4 Curly Bird BBQ 169.1200
5 Lake Region High Thunder Thighs 163.9428
6 Cool Guys BBQ 159.3600
7 Evans Family Ranch 158.8000
8 Amped Up 155.9200
9 MaGoo's Eatery 154.8116

Pork Ribs

10 entries · top 178.8572 · median 165.9944

#TeamScore
1 Curly Bird BBQ 178.8572
2 Powered by Smoke 169.1316
3 Belly Bustin Bistro 168.5488
4 Cool Guys BBQ 167.9772
5 Evans Family Ranch 166.8344
6 HOLE 15 BBQ 165.1544
7 Yeti Mafia BBQ 165.0856
8 Lake Region High Thunder Thighs 159.9772
9 Amped Up 158.2400
10 MaGoo's Eatery 156.5716

Ancillary

Pork

9 entries · top 172.5944 · median 168.0000

#TeamScore
1 Amped Up 172.5944
2 Yeti Mafia BBQ 171.4056
3 Curly Bird BBQ 170.2512
4 Belly Bustin Bistro 168.5484
5 Lake Region High Thunder Thighs 168.0000
6 Cool Guys BBQ 159.3716
7 Powered by Smoke 158.8000
8 MaGoo's Eatery 153.6456
9 Evans Family Ranch 150.7772

Brisket

9 entries · top 172.5600 · median 161.0972

#TeamScore
1 Yeti Mafia BBQ 172.5600
2 Curly Bird BBQ 168.5600
3 Lake Region High Thunder Thighs 165.1200
4 Belly Bustin Bistro 162.2628
5 Powered by Smoke 161.0972
6 Evans Family Ranch 154.2172
7 MaGoo's Eatery 152.5488
8 Amped Up 150.8228
9 Cool Guys BBQ 143.8516

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